Advised by Andrew King
Awarded the Ping Kwan Lau Prize in Architecture

Assisted by Alynna Gao (Urinal Matrix, Stall Matrix, Urinals from Stall, Mirror, Mirror, Meet Me in the Men's Room), Nikki Apostilidis (Pink Paper Curtains), and Claudia Ng (Meet Me in the Men's Room)

Rehearsing the (*) Bathroom is a speculative video/performance-based project. It explores the gendered public bathroom—specifically the men’s room—as a political tool and preconstructed space of certainty which quietly, yet forcefully, conditions and homogenizes the/my body. Embracing the abject, or what might be considered taboo, each video attempts to destabilize assumed codes and dominant socio-spatial structures within the space through cine-somatic representations of embodied memories, daily rituals, and fabulated scenarios.

When we enter a building, we do so through the bathroom. That is, our ability to linger in any given space is predicated on our ability to relieve ourselves. Further contextualized by an alarming increase in anti-trans policies on the table across North America today, Rehearsing doubly aims to combat the erasure of and hostility towards gender-expansive people by nurturing a deep sense of doubt around these taken-for-granted spaces.

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2025